The turning point in my belief was watching someone with a spectacular amount of money on the line fire their highest performers because they were achieving that performance without LLMs.
lol; lmao
My partner was the only person on their team who knew how to do anything and i can promise you 1) the ceo consulted an llm about this return to office decision and 2) work is piling up and being done just straight up incorrectly now that my partner is gone
I love living under the most efficient economic system possible
My leadership keep claiming that ai can replace people who know what theyre doing but my first hand experience of those who dont is quite literally monkeys on typewriters. One guys brain is basically plugged into copilot and his strategy is trying completely random things that just break the system over and over until pure random chance might “fix” it but the “solution” ends up being something like chmod 777 all of root
The people with no comprehension of what theyre doing wielding AI are so incredibly dangerous im certain they’ll eventually bring down critical services and cause a crisis lol
The people with no comprehension of what theyre doing wielding AI are so incredibly dangerous im certain they’ll eventually bring down critical services
One of the reasons i persist in ignoring people telling me not to interact with llms at all is so that i at least somewhat know what I’m doing when I do, but my approach is more to try to break it in weird ways rather than asking it for novel ways to break important IRL systems. Your coworker is a true master at their craft (/s)
I’m honestly surprised they didn’t just try to straight up replace my partner with AI instead of this return to office nonsense but I think they might be legally constrained since it’s compliance and certification related and not the kind of thing you’d wanna fuck up (but who am i kidding, my partner’s fucking doctor was using an LLM, I bet it’s why they “forgot” to prescribe omeprazole when they had trouble eating)
This is one of the best articles I have ever seen posted on this site. I want to do the usual thing I do which is cut out snippets and put them in a comment but the entire thing is good.
I am particularly fond of the analysis of the social and political relations driving people to say things about AI that they do not believe because their jobs are at stake if they don’t say them. Really good analysis.
Extremely funny that society (allegedly) values CEOs for their decision making abilities but when push comes to shove they’re all little pissbabies who can’t push back on anything.
this is the real roko’s basilisk, i won’t explain
wow its just like hit show rocko’s modern life
It’s a kind of interesting idea, not because it has merit, but because it shows how deeply capitalist ideas grip people’s minds. They have to do this horrible thing no one wants, because if someone else does it first, they can’t benefit from it.
I am but a vessel for OpenAI to make love to my wife.
This is pure tagline material, pls mods.
While correct about alot of the criticisms of AI, his solutions are all very individualistic (which I guess figures since he’s a CEO)
I have bad news – accept that you are probably not going to meaningfully push back on any of this. This is not a feature of AI, it’s a feature of dysfunctional companies.
Why are these companies dysfunctional in the first place? Companies’ main purpose is to make profit, they would not exist otherwise, functionally or dysfunctionally. Of course one person cannot pushback against what the executives at a company want. I do like how he’s not pinning the problem on AI specifically here but the relations between employees and the company.
If you feel like you’re going absolutely nuts, consider switching over to contracting. I’ve advocated for contracting many times over full-time employment, but you’ll get paid a lot more and be left out of most internal politics. Also when you run into a really intolerable situation, you’ll know that you’ve got a fixed end-date.
Just switch jobs. Also a job that gives you less stability. Seems we are heading in the wrong direction here…
When someone tells me they are using AI for something when they really shouldn’t be, I smile and nod as long as they are unlikely to get themselves killed. Even family. Especially family.
Yea, ive also kind of accepted this. The less technical people are the more polarized they are with AI doing this or that and they just want to hear whatever you reinforces this polarization.
I was kind of hoping this article would go more into how people are offloading all their decision making to LLMs, which I do find interesting because it must be leading to some kind of mean of people acting or producing the same thing.
There does seem to be an “AI orthodoxy” in alot of workplaces, that in my opinion isnt even about how AI works, but how people react and interact with a tool/technology. It just so happens that AI is this technology and it has captured many capitalists’ interest. I think this is not new but it exposes the relations of production much more clearly, and people are seeing the absurdity of it more naked.
Any coherent question about how it’s going, what the goal is, who is using it, constitutes an inadvertent attack on the chain of command responsible for the work because there are no good answers to anything.
Many such cases… in every industry.
Employees don’t use internal chatbots because companies tend to have low-quality documentation and an LLM is not psychic – it can only know things that have been written down and made accessible.
It is amazing how common it is at a business or org that, say, a report only pulls data from A and B but not C and D because the current unit head was told by the previous unit head (who now works elsewhere) to do it that way, and they heard it from the prior unit head they took over from (retired), who was told to do it that way by Jim, the old general counsel (RIP). There’s no documentation or original email record, because that conversation happened in an in-person meeting.
I no longer visit Hackernews, Reddit, or really anywhere where I am going to be drip-fed nonsense
This is so entertaining to read
Pre 2023 software work, logic and decision-making is/will be looked at how we look at pre 1943 steel.
Which is sad considering how bad software development has always been before this AI nonsense
It’s not all bad, only like 99.9% of it.
If you’re being asked to max out on token usage, look for a new j – okay look, you get it, right? Go find a job that isn’t going to wrench reality from your tenuous grasp. They do exist, largely at companies so small that they don’t turn up on job platforms. It might take months to find one, so start now.
I work at one. Pay is not the best, boss sucks, but at least he knows he’s dumb and deferrs to us. No one uses AI except a couple employees who are notoriously bad at their job and keep evangelizing it to everyone. Those people (it’s really only one) only has their job because they shacked up with the owner’s daughter ASAP. Something that will inevitably get them fired lol.
I run the development and database systems and everything is open source and self hosted. Our whole company stack can be run on $25 worth of computers. I’ve used the same stack with a local non-profit on that $25 hardware and it saved them $700/mo.
All my code is handwritten and open source. If I see someone submitting AI code, it is immediately rejected and that person is removed from the team (this just means re-tasked to production work, not necessarily fired).
who the fuck is Al? 😛
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